Chapter 465 - 5 Negotiation
465 Negotiation
After the banquet, Abel sent off his guests one by one. Of course, Abel urged Bernie to stay. He had a lot of guest rooms in his mansion, and all 7 of them could fit.
“Abel, what do you want?” Bernie asked as they sat in the lounge room while Bartoli guarded outside. Bernie knew Abel needed to ask him something important in secret. If not, he would not tell Bartoli to stand outside.
“Bernie, does the Goff family have their own magic tower and teleportation circle constructing wizards?” Abel said after a bit of thinking.
“Constructing magic towers and teleportation circles? Yes, we do, but why don’t you just ask the Wizard Union in Linate City to help you?” Bernie asked in confusion.
“Right, there are some procedures I don’t want anyone to know. Does your side have any trustworthy construction wizards?” Abel said helplessly after more thinking.
“Abel, I have a construction team in my family made up of my own people. I will only use them to do the most secretive procedures, but can you just tell me what procedures you want to do?” Bernie asked curiously.
“I have a ready-made magic tower, and I don’t want anyone to see it at the moment. I want to buy a giant hidden circle and hide the magic tower within it. The interior needs to get touched up a bit, and its teleportation circle is a little bit damaged as well.” Abel said softly.
“Abel, this magic tower you are talking about… does it have 16 floors? is the exterior made up of sigh stones?” Asked Bernie with his eyes wide open, staring at Abel.
“Huh? How did you know?” Abel asked in surprise.
“Abel, you know what. Originally I thought you needed the dwarfs, so I got 2 elite wizards from my family ready to fight. But soon, I heard that Wizard Cliff was dead. The first person I thought about was you! At first, I couldn’t believe it. Even if I sent out the 2 elite wizards from my family, they still probably couldn’t capture Wizard Cliff. We only wanted to stand up for you.” Said Bernie in a weird tone.
“Thank you so much, Bernie. I have some hidden powers, but I didn’t expect it to go this smoothly either!” Said Abel in gratitude.
“Abel, some power? We’ve known each other for a long time, and we’ve fought together, but you always preserved your limit. You just love it, don’t you. Or maybe you are just scared to show your last hand, and not let your enemies or friends understand you. This is understandable. Every wizard must have their own secret.” Bernie exclaimed, pointing at Abel.
Bernie filled with excitement and yelled, “But, this time, you bashed an elite wizard to death. How does that make any sense? Do you know how many elite wizards there are in the Holy Continent? On top of that, you even stole their magic tower!”
“Bernie, have you ever seen that magic tower? That thing looks amazing; I couldn’t help it.” Said Abel waving his hand.
“Of course I know about the Sigh Stone on the thing; Wizard Cliff had gathered them for 50 years through all kinds of methods, and he had only built this magic tower 10 years ago. If floors were not a factor, it’s probably the best magic tower in the Holy Continent.” Although Bernie wasn’t a Wizard, he still understood where Wizard Cliff got his magic tower from through his investigation department in the Goff family.
“Yeah, a good magic tower was up for grabs. How could I stop myself?” Abel did not hold back when talking to Bernie. He didn’t have many friends like this.
“The question is… how did you even take it? That thing has 16 floors; that’s 50 meters!” Bernie’s gaze was filled with curiosity.
“Actually, you know, I have a contracted beast. That Johnson!” Said Abel with a smile.
“The stone giant? Yeah, I’ve seen him. You gave him a full metal body. There aren’t many stone giants in the Holy Continent in the first place, and you got one contracted. Even people with more power than you can’t do this!” Said Bernie in admiration.
A stone giant was very similar to the legendary giant with it’s 20 meter tall body. If Bernie could get one contracted and bring it back to the dwarfs, he would be the coolest guy in town. It made him drool just thinking about it.
“I had no choice but to tell Johson to swallow the magic tower and make it its body!” Abel with a funny smile.
“Abel, you’re something else. Only you could think of something like this!” Said Bernie speechlessly.
“So what now, I’ve told you everything you need to know; are you going to help me organize your construction team?” Abel asked again.
“Sure, I’ll send them over. But if you want to hide your magic tower, I have a better solution for you!” said Bernie with a smile.
“You have a better solution?” Abel asked curiously. The best way to hide something was the hidden circle. Even as a wizard, Abel had never heard of something better.
“My family’s warehouse has an ancient levitating castle base built by the elite elves. As long as you put 2000 intermediate mana gems on top of it, anything on top of it can be hidden. Even your 50 meters magic tower!” Said Bernie in a funny tone.
“Levitating castle base?” Can it levitate?” Abel asked curiously.
“Abel, if it could levitate, my family wizards would have stolen it already! You wouldn’t be able to use it!” Said Bernie looking like he never knew Abel.
“Then what’s the point of calling it a levitating castle base?” Said Abel in confusion.
“It can’t levitate now, but it could when the elite elves were still around. Their wealth was scary, so they would often install this thing on top of their cities to hide it from their enemies. Even if people wanted to attack them, they could strike first!
Even us dwarfs don’t have the wealth to turn on its levitating ability. When we first got this thing, a head chef in my family had spent 20 high level mana gems to push this thing 20 meters off the ground before all of the energy was used up. But those elite wizards had used it for hundreds of years above their cities without war.
No one’s tested out the levitating ability ever since. If you want to perfectly ignite it’s levitating ability, you will need at least 2000 high level mana gems to support every pattern on top of it, as well as give those gems enough time to replenish its energy.” Bernie explained.
After hearing Bernie’s words, Abel felt his heart twitch. Unlike other people in the Holy Continent, Abel had endless high level mana gems and perfect diamonds since he could keep combining them. “Ok, what’s the condition if I want this castle base?”
“20 barrels of Master wine!” Bernie yelled with his eyes sparkling.
Wealth didn’t mean much to the dwarfs, and to the Goff family, it was just a number since they had traded among all kinds of races in the Holy Continent for years. They also had all kinds of resources on top of their outstanding forgery skills, so they were the biggest weapon maker in the Holy Continent. They had full control over the elite and intermediate markets.
Bernie didn’t care too much about things other than Abel’s Master Wine. Even sending his wizards to eat at Abel’s place for 10 days was a casual request. Other than enjoying it himself, the Master Wine was also a secret weapon when negotiating with the elite dwarfs.
“You are such a bad friend, Bernie; you said you would help me, but I know there is something you want from me!” said Abel shaking his head.
“So, do you want it or not?” Bernie asked.
“You win!” Said Abel waving his hand. But he was actually extremely excited in his heart.